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plate book

図録 ／ plate-book　—　Reading

A book of photographs and plates, made to be looked at.

Keichō koban Keichō kobanAD 1601–1695
A photograph of what this word names.

Instead of explaining with text, it shows each coin one by one. The page design of NOMISMA also borrows from the conventions of illustrated catalogues.